Greatly appreciated and accepted by poultry breeders as a must have, this book has been written for both beginners and the experienced breeder.
Features many chapters such as: what is a breed, breeding in numbers, improving a strain of birds and why to hatch large fowl early,
changing colours, plumage patterens, looking at the genes of poultry and genetics of eggshell colour and more.
Covers many of the popular breeds such as Orpington, Sussex, Pekin Bantam, Silkie, and Old English Game with advice throughout.
Grant shows step-by-step plumage changes from generation-to-generation. There are 290 colour photographs within the pages of this Edition.
148 A5 Pages
ISBN 9781910632512
J.AR